The Rock Albums & Top Tracks charts were introduced in the March 21, 1981, issue of Billboard. The 50- and 60-position charts ranked airplay on album rock radio stations.[1] Because album-oriented rock stations focused on playing tracks from albums rather than specifically released singles, these charts were designed to measure the airplay of any and all tracks from an album. Rock Albums was a survey of the top albums on rock radio, while Top Tracks listed the top individual songs being played. Mike Harrison of Billboard explained that when major artists release albums, more than one song from the album can become popular at the same time.[1] The first number-one song on the Top Tracks chart was "I Can't Stand It" by Eric Clapton.[1]

In September 1984, the Rock Albums chart was discontinued and Top Tracks was renamed Top Rock Tracks.[2] It reduced from a 60-song tally to 50 songs on October 20, 1984, following a major revamp to the magazine. Coinciding with an increase in its reporting panel of album rock stations, the name of the chart was changed again with the issue dated April 12, 1986, to Album Rock Tracks.[3] In November 1991, instead of reporting panels, Billboard changed its methodology of measuring airplay by using monitored airplay as provided by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems to compile many of its charts. As a result, this data showed that many songs could spend months to over a year on the Album Rock Tracks chart. Billboard decided to drop to a 40-position chart (still its current format), and songs that fell out of the top 20 and after spending 20 weeks on the chart were moved to a new 10-position recurrent chart.[4] The recurrent chart was scrapped two years later, but not the methodology.

To differentiate between classic and alternative album rock radio formats, Billboard changed the name of the chart to Mainstream Rock Tracks beginning with issue dated April 13, 1996.[5] The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart did not appear in the print edition of Billboard from its issue dated August 2, 2003,[6] being accessible only through the magazine's subscription-based website, Billboard.biz. In late 2013, the chart was reintroduced to its primary website and magazine.

When R&R ceased publication in June 2009, Billboard incorporated its rock charts, Active Rock and Heritage Rock into its own publication. The radio station reporters of the two charts combine to make up the Mainstream Rock chart.[7]Active rock stations concentrate on current hits over classic rock standards while heritage rock stations put a greater emphasis on classic rock with a few newer tracks mixed in.[8] The individual Active Rock and Heritage Rock components were discontinued by Billboard at the end of November 2013 due to a growing lack of difference between the two charts.[9]

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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste

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Eric Clapton
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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important, Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and fourth in Gibsons Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. He was also named number five in Time magazines list of The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players in 2009, in the mid-1960s Clapton left the Yardbirds to play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Furthermore, he formed rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood. For most of the 1970s Claptons output bore the influence of the style of J. J. Cale. His version of Marleys I Shot the Sheriff helped reggae reach a mass market, two of his most popular recordings were Layla, recorded with Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnsons Crossroads, recorded with Cream. Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Claptons grief was expressed in the song Tears in Heaven, Clapton has been the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music, in 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England, to 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer, Fryer shipped off to war prior to Claptons birth and then returned to Canada. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the belief that Claptons real surname is Clapp. Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently, Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder and his guitar playing was so advanced that, by the age of 16, he was getting noticed. Around this time, Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, in 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey. When he was seventeen years old, Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group and he stayed with this band from January until August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a stint with Casey Jones & the Engineers. In October 1963, Clapton joined the Yardbirds, a rock and roll band

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Van Halen
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Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985, the band consisted of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, the band went on to become major stars, and by the early 1980s they were one of the most successful rock acts of the time. 1984 was their most successful album, the lead single, Jump, became an international hit and their only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The following singles, Panama and Ill Wait, both hit number 13 on the U. S. charts, the album went on to sell over 12 million copies in the U. S. alone. In 1985, the band replaced lead singer David Lee Roth with former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar, with Hagar, the group would release four U. S. number-one albums over the course of 11 years. Hagar left the band in 1996 shortly before the release of the bands first greatest hits collection, former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone was quickly recruited as lead singer to replace Hagar, and Van Halen III was released in 1998. Cherone left the band in frustration in 1999 after the due to the poor commercial performance of the album. Van Halen went on hiatus until 2003 when they reunited with Hagar for a worldwide tour, the reunited band released a second greatest hits collection the following year, The Best of Both Worlds. Like Volume I before it, The Best of Both Worlds included material from both the Roth and Hagar eras but omitted any Cherone era tracks, the album featured three brand new tracks recorded by the reunited band, two of which were released as singles. Hagar again left Van Halen in 2005, and in 2006 Roth returned as lead vocalist for their highest-grossing tour, Anthony was not invited to participate in the tour and was essentially fired from the band, replaced by Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddies son. In 2012, the released the commercially and critically successful. According to the RIAA, Van Halen is the 19th-best-selling band/artist in United States history and they were also revealed at number 4 on the Billboards top moneymakers list in 2013. Controversy surrounded the band following the exits of Roth, Hagar, and Anthony, in 2007, Van Halen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. VH1 ranked them 7th on their list of the top 100 hard rock artists of all time, the Van Halen brothers were born in The Netherlands, Edward Van Halen in Nijmegen and Alex Van Halen in Amsterdam, sons to musician Jan Van Halen. The family moved to Pasadena, California in 1962, young Edward first began studying classical piano, and became quite proficient. Eventually the brothers started playing together in the 1960s – Eddie on drums. While Eddie was delivering newspapers to pay for his new set, Alex would sneak over. Eventually Eddie found out about it, and out of frustration he told Alex, OK, you play drums, the Van Halen brothers formed their very first band called The Broken Combs in the early 1970s

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Three Days Grace
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Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band formed in Norwood, Ontario in 1997. Based in Toronto, the bands original line-up consisted of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer and backing vocalist Neil Sanderson, in 2003, Barry Stock was recruited as the bands lead guitarist. In 2013, Gontier left the band and was replaced by My Darkest Days vocalist Matt Walst, the band has a string of number one songs on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. Three Days Grace has its origins in a band called Groundswell, formed in Norwood, Ontario. Groundswell released one album, Wave of Popular Feeling. The bands line-up consisted of lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer Neil Sanderson, bassist Brad Walst, lead guitarist Phil Crowe, most of the members were attending high school when the band formed. By the end of 1995, the band had broken up, in 1997, Gontier, Sanderson, and Walst regrouped as Three Days Grace. According to Gontier, the name refers to a sense of urgency, once in Toronto, the band became acquainted with local producer Gavin Brown. The band gave him years of material which they had created. Brown and the band polished the songs, and created a demo album, the record label wanted to hear more material, and with Brown producing, the band created the song, I Hate Everything About You, which attracted the interest of several record labels. The band was signed to Jive Records after being sought out by the companys president. The band moved to Long View Farm, a studio in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, the self-titled album was finished in Woodstock, New York and released on July 22,2003. It was met with mixed to favourable reviews, dave Doray of IGN said of the album, Mistakes. To support the album, in 2003 Three Days Grace released its first single. The song received airplay and rapidly became a widely recognizable song. After Barry Stock joined as lead guitarist in late 2003, Three Days Grace toured continuously and extensively for two years in support of their major label debut. The release of I Hate Everything About You was followed by two single releases, Just Like You and Home. About this time, Gontier developed an addiction to the prescription drug OxyContin, while in treatment, Gontier began writing lyrics for songs regarding how he felt and what he was going through in rehabilitation

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Shinedown
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Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The group has released five albums, Leave a Whisper, Us and Them, The Sound of Madness, Amaryllis, the bands origins trace back to frontman Brent Smiths prior band, Dreve, which had signed a record deal with Atlantic Records in 2000. The record label, unhappy with Dreve as a whole, dropped the prior to releasing an album, but retained Smith. Atlantic signed Smith to a development deal where record representatives helped him with his ability, and helped him recruit members for a new band. Smith moved to Jacksonville, Florida and began work on the project in 2001, the first member he recruited was bassist Brad Stewart, through local Jacksonville music producer Pete Thornton. Smith and Stewart began recording together in a small local studio, whose owner recommended they meet with her fiance, guitarist Jasin Todd. The original lineup was rounded out by drummer Barry Kerch, who was the drummer the band had auditioned for the spot. The four worked together on creating demos, and submitted their work-in-progress material to Atlantic, the resulting work was the bands debut album, Leave a Whisper which was released May 27,2003. While not a success, through the extensive touring and successful singles, eventually certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States. Four singles were released from the album Fly from the Inside,45, and a cover of the Lynyrd Skynyrd song, Simple Man, and Burning Bright. All four singles charted in the top five of the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts, peaking at fifth, third, fifth, the band toured extensively in support of the album, playing over 400 live shows over the course of 2003 and 2004. The band ended up touring for 24 months straight, doing tours with Van Halen, Seether. The band later released a live DVD titled Live from the Inside that documented the shows of the touring cycle. The band didnt start work on a follow up album until 2005 and this however, left the band with limited time to record new music, with their record label pressuring the band to get the album out in a six month time period. Despite the time restrictions, the label did not pressure the band on the musical direction after the commercial success of Leave a Whisper. The band worked with music producer Tony Battaglia, and chose to go in a mature and stripped down direction for the albums sound. During the same time, the band was approached by Hollywood Records to record a song for a tribute album for the band Queens. They recorded a cover of the track Tie Your Mother Down, the band released their second studio album Us and Them, on October 4,2005

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida. In 1976, the original lineup was Tom Petty as the lead singer and guitar player, Mike Campbell as the lead guitarist, Ron Blair on bass, Stan Lynch on drums. The band has maintained this lineup, with a few exceptions. In 1981, Blair, who was tired of the touring lifestyle, blairs replacement, Howie Epstein, stayed with the band for the next twenty years. Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist, mostly rhythm guitar and second keyboards, Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epsteins death. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were on the forefront of the heartland rock movement, alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger, which arose in the late 1970s and 1980s. Petty and the Heartbreakers are known for hit singles such as American Girl, Breakdown, The Waiting, Learning to Fly, Refugee, while the heartland rock movement fizzled in the 1990s, the band remained active and popular. They still tour regularly and continue to record albums and their most recent, Hypnotic Eye, was released on July 25,2014. Although most of their material is produced and performed under the name The Heartbreakers, in these releases, members of the band contributed as collaborators, producing and performing as studio musicians. Pettys early bands included the Sundowners, the Epics, and Mudcrutch, in 1974, Mudcrutch signed with Shelter Records and re-located to Los Angeles, California. The band released one single, Depot Street, in 1975, which failed to chart, in December 1975 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers formed. The Heartbreakers began their career with a self-titled album, released through the aforementioned Shelter label. Initially, the Heartbreakers did not gain traction in America. Early singles included Breakdown and American Girl, Breakdown was re-released in the USA and became a Top 40 hit in 1978, after word filtered back to the States that the band was creating a firestorm in the UK. Their 1978 second album, Youre Gonna Get It, marked the bands first gold album, and featured the singles I Need to Know and Listen To Her Heart. In 1979, the band was dragged into a dispute when ABC Records. Petty refused to be transferred to another record label and he held fast to his principles, which led to his filing for bankruptcy as a tactic against MCA. In 1979, after their dispute was settled, the Heartbreakers released their third album Damn the Torpedoes through MCAs Backstreet label

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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands

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Metallica
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Metallica is an American heavy metal band based in San Rafael, California. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper, Metallicas current line-up comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band, the bands fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship placed them as one of the founding big four bands of thrash metal, alongside Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer. The band expanded its musical direction and achieved commercial success with its eponymous fifth album Metallica. The album was also their first to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, in 2000, Metallica joined with other artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the bands copyright-protected material without consent from the band. A settlement was reached and Napster became a pay-to-use service, the band returned to its original musical style with the release of Death Magnetic, and in 2009, Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Metallica has released ten albums, four live albums, five extended plays,26 music videos. The band has won eight Grammy Awards and six of its albums have debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The bands eponymous 1991 album has sold over 16 million copies in the United States, Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 110 million records worldwide. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone, in 2012, Metallica formed the independent record label Blackened Recordings and took full ownership of its albums and videos. The band is currently promoting Hardwired. to Self-Destruct, which was released on November 18,2016, guitarists James Hetfield and Hugh Tanner of Leather Charm answered the advertisement. Although he had not formed a band, Ulrich asked Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel if he could record a song for the upcoming compilation album Metal Massacre. Slagel accepted and Ulrich recruited Hetfield to sing and play rhythm guitar, the band was officially formed in October 1981, five months after Ulrich and Hetfield first met. Ulrich talked to his friend Ron Quintana, who was brainstorming names for a fanzine, Quintana had proposed the names MetalMania and Metallica. A second advertisement was placed in The Recycler for a position as lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine answered, Ulrich and Hetfield recruited him after seeing his expensive guitar equipment. In early 1982, Metallica recorded its first original song Hit the Lights for the Metal Massacre I compilation, Hetfield played bass on the song and Lloyd Grant was credited with a guitar solo. Metal Massacre I was released on June 14,1982, early pressings listed the band incorrectly as Mettallica, the bands first taste of live success came early, they were chosen to open for British heavy metal band Saxon at one gig of their 1982 US tour. Metallica recorded its first demo, Power Metal, an inspired by Quintanas early business cards in early 1982

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3 Doors Down
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3 Doors Down is an American rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi, that formed in 1996. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold, Todd Harrell, and they were soon joined by rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson. The band rose to fame with their first single, Kryptonite. The band then signed with Republic Records and released their album, The Better Life. The album was the 11th-best-selling album of the year and was certified 6x platinum in the United States and they were later joined by drummer Richard Liles, who played during the tour for their first album. The band toured extensively for two years, Daniel Adair played drums on tour from 2002 to 2005. This configuration played nearly 1,000 shows across the following the release of Away from the Sun. In 2005, Greg Upchurch joined to play drums to replace Adair,3 Doors Down released their third album, Seventeen Days in 2005. The album debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum one month of release. Their fourth, self-titled album,3 Doors Down, also debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the bands fifth studio album, Time of My Life debuted at No.3 on the charts. Original guitarist Matt Roberts departed in 2012, owing to health issues and he was replaced by Chet Roberts, who was formerly Hendersons guitar tech. Harrell was fired from the band in 2013 after being charged with vehicular homicide, worldwide,3 Doors Down has sold more than 20 million albums. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold, Todd Harrell and Matt Roberts, the band began to tour outside Escatawpa, and it was during a trip to Foley, Alabama that they came up with their official name. When the three men were walking through the town, they saw a building where some letters had fallen off its sign, since at the time they consisted of three people, they added the 3 to create 3 Doors Down. The cover of their 2011 album Time of My Life hints at the number of band members and current band members. A couple of years performing together, Todd Harrell asked rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson to join the band. They recorded a demo CD of their songs at Lincoln Recording in Pascagoula. When the band gave the CD to local radio station WCPR-FM they started playing the EP version of Kryptonite, the stations program director sent the song to manager Phin Daly who in turn showed it to Bill McGathy, his employer at In De Goot Entertainment

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Nickelback
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Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. The band is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. The band went through a few drummer changes between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current form when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal. S. of the 2000s, behind The Beatles. Billboard ranks them the most successful group of the decade, their song How You Remind Me was listed as the best-selling rock song of the decade. They were listed number seven on the Billboard top artist of the decade, the band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and re-released their once-independent album The State. The band achieved success with the release of their 2000 album The State. Following the release of Silver Side Up the band released their biggest and most known hit today, How You Remind Me which peaked number 1 on the American and Canadian charts at the same time. The bands album Dark Horse was a success which produced eight singles, one of which peaked on the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2011, the band released their seventh album Here and Now which again topped the charts. Their eighth studio album No Fixed Address was released on 17 November 2014, the band is based in Vancouver, Canada. The bands original domestic signing was with EMI Canada and they subsequently obtained an American deal with global distribution via Roadrunner Records. For the release of their album, the band parted from EMI Canada. The band was formed in the early 1990s as a band called the Village Idiots by Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger. The band performed covers of songs from Led Zeppelin and Metallica, Chad Kroeger then asked his step-father to give him $4,000 so that the band could record their first demo, a seven-track EP of original material, called Hesher. In 1996, the recorded and released their first full-length album. Fly was included on both Hesher and Curb and was the first single produced by Nickelback, in 1997, Brandon Kroeger left the band and the band searched for a new drummer. Later that year Mitch Guindon joined the band, but he decided to leave in 1998 because he started working in a car company, in Summer 1998, Ryan Vikedal joined the band. Roadrunner A&R Ron Burman told HitQuarters that one of his West Coast scouts sent him the album and, suitably impressed. Although an unknown property in the industry at the time, the venue was packed out, in Burmans words, I immediately got the chills

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Collective Soul
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Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia. Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of lead vocalist Ed Roland, rhythm guitarist Dean Roland, bassist Will Turpin, drummer Johnny Rabb, before forming Collective Soul, singer Ed Roland studied music composition and guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the mid-1980s Roland was involved in Atlantas underground music scene making demos and he also worked at Real 2 Reel Studios in Stockbridge, which was owned by bassist Will Turpins father, Bill Turpin. Rolands duties were producing, mixing and engineering for local Atlanta artists and he recorded his demos and released an independent solo album Ed-E Roland in 1991. At this time the group was known as Ed-E. That initial version of the Ed-E band dissolved in the mid to late 1980s due to incompatible musical tastes among other differences, Roland subsequently formed Marching Two-Step which included original Collective Soul drummer Shane Evans, Michele Rhea Caplinger, and Matt Serletic. Marching Two-Step were a local gigging band for a few years, Rolands early attempts to be signed to a recording contract by a label faced rejections. Caplinger would become a music industry publicist and was appointed executive director of the Atlanta Chapter of the Recording Academy in 2000. Serletic would go on to become a Grammy winning producer for Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls and Edwin McCain, after the demise of Rolands previous music collaborations, he enlisted musicians to record a demo in a basement. Roland initially intended to sell the songs to a company and had no immediate plans of forming a band out of it. The demo was submitted to Amy Staehling, host of the Georgia music show at Album 88, Georgia State University’s student radio station in Atlanta. She carted up the song Shine, and it was added to the stations rotation, the demo was also passed along to WJRR in Orlando, Florida which began playing Shine, soon to be its most requested song. Atlantic Records took note of the popularity of Shine and subsequently signed them to a contract, upon Collective Souls signing, Atlantic wished to capitalize on the bands success and quickly re-released the 1993 demo Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid as their first studio album. Although reluctant to have the unpolished demo represent their new line-up, Collective Soul gained international recognition, the band quickly began work on what they would consider their true debut record and were invited to perform at Woodstock 1994. They also toured extensively across North America, the group’s self-titled second album issued the following year, was certified RIAA triple platinum, and logged a 76-week run on the Billboard 200. Notable singles from Collective Soul included US Rock Chart No.1 hits December, Where The River Flows, and The World I Know, No.2 hit Gel, and the Top 10 hit Smashing Young Man. While the legal battles continued, the band went to a cabin, in the middle of 40 acres of cow pasture in Stockbridge and they recorded into a computer their impromptu efforts of songs Roland penned, and these became Disciplined Breakdown. The legal case was settled, and both parties were instructed not to discuss the outcome

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Foo Fighters
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Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. The group got its name from the UFOs and various phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II. The band began with performances in Portland, Oregon, Goldsmith quit during the recording of the groups second album, The Colour and the Shape, when most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl himself. Smears departure followed soon afterward, though he would rejoin them in 2005 and they were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl was fired before the recording of the groups third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined as the lead guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its album, One by One, in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor, Foo Fighters released its sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007. The bands seventh album, Wasting Light, produced by Butch Vig was released in 2011. In November 2014, the eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, was released as an accompanying soundtrack to the Grohl-directed 2014 miniseries of the same name. Over the course of the career, four of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. As of 2015, the eight albums have sold 12 million copies in the U. S. and 30 million worldwide. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl joined the grunge group Nirvana as its drummer in 1990, during tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs. Grohl held back these songs from the rest of the band, he said in 1997, I was in awe of, I thought it was best that I kept my songs to myself. Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers of songs he liked, frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 8,1994, and Nirvana subsequently disbanded. Grohl received offers to work with artists, press rumors indicated he might be joining Pearl Jam and he almost accepted a permanent position as drummer in Tom Petty. Ultimately Grohl declined and instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to record fifteen of the forty songs he had written. With the exception of a part on X-Static, played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Dave Grohl played every instrument

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John Mellencamp
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John J Mellencamp, also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, Paper in Fire, and Cherry Bomb. He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp released his latest album, Plain Spoken, on September 23,2014, Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10,2008. His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Brown, said longtime Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis, Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience. The late Billboard magazine editor-in-chief Timothy White said in 2001, John Mellencamp is arguably the most important roots rocker of his generation, Mellencamps best music is rock n roll stripped of all escapism, and it looks directly at the messiness of life as its actually lived. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood and this is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture hes observing. Johnny Cash called Mellencamp one of the 10 best songwriters in music and he was born with spina bifida, for which he had corrective surgery as an infant. Mellencamp formed his first band, Crepe Soul, at the age of 14 and later played in the local bands Trash, Snakepit Banana Barn, when Mellencamp was 18, he eloped with his pregnant girlfriend Priscilla Esterline. Mellencamp became a father in December 1970, only six months after he graduated high school. His daughter, Michelle, later became a mother when she was 19, Mellencamp attended Vincennes University, a two-year college in Vincennes, Indiana, starting in 1972. I would lie there, listening to Roxy Music, right next to the player so I wouldnt have to get up to flip the record over. Id listen to this record, that record, there would be four or five days like that when I would be completely gone. Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a complete failure, Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview, That was put on me by some manager. I went to New York and everybody said, You sound like a hillbilly, so thats where he came up with that name. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket, when I objected to it, he said, Well, either youre going to go for it, or we’re not going to put the record out. So that was what I had to do, but I thought the name was pretty silly

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Godsmack
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Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, since its formation, Godsmack which has resulted in six studio albums, one EP, four DVDs, one compilation album, and one live album. The band has had three consecutive albums on the Billboard 200. The band also has 20 top ten rock radio hits, including 15 songs in the top five, a record number of top ten singles by a rock artist. Since its inception, Godsmack has toured on Ozzfest on more than one occasion, Godsmack has sold over 20 million records in just over a decade. In honor of the success and the release of their sixth studio album, 1000hp. In February 1995, Sully Erna decided to start a new band as the singer after playing the drums for more than 23 years. His new band, The Scam, formed with Erna on vocals, Robbie Merrill on bass, local guitarist and friend Lee Richards on guitar, the Scam quickly changed its name to Godsmack, after recording one demo. The newly formed band started playing small bars in their hometown of Boston, locally popular songs such as Keep Away and Whatever soon brought them to the top of the hit charts in the Boston/New England area. The name stuck and they went by Godsmack from then on and we were aware of the Alice in Chains song but didnt really think much about it. In 1996, Tony Rombola and Joe DArco joined Godsmack as the guitarist and drummer, after Richards left upon learning he had a six-year-old child, in the same year, the band entered the studio for the first time, recording its first CD titled All Wound Up. The CD was recorded in just three days for $2,600, for the next two years, the band played throughout the Boston area. Eventually Godsmacks CD landed in the hands of Rocko, the night-time DJ for Boston radio station WAAF, the radio station put Keep Away into heavy rotation and the song rose to the number one spot at the station very quickly. Newbury Comics, a New England record store chain, agreed to sell the CD on consignment, shortly after the success of Keep Away, Godsmack went back into the studio and recorded a single titled Whatever, which became the new local favorite on WAAF. In an interview Sully Erna stated, We had been selling maybe 50 copies a month at the time WAAF picked up the album, All of a sudden we started moving over a thousand records a week. I was doing all this from my bedroom, after years of grinding away, things finally started taking off. In mid-1998, Universal/Republic Records signed the band to their label, Joe DArco was dismissed from the band. He was replaced by former drummer Tommy Stewart, who returned after expressing a desire to be in the band again, the bands first studio recording All Wound Up was re-mastered, and the finished self-titled debut CD album Godsmack was released to the public six weeks later

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Pearl Jam
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the bands line-up has comprised Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, the bands fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar has also been a member with the band since 2002. Drummers Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons are former members of the band, formed after the demise of Gossard and Aments previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame, to date, the band has sold nearly 32 million records in the United States and an estimated 60 million worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as the most popular American rock & roll band of the 90s. Pearl Jam is to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7,2017, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of pioneering grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success but disbanded in 1987 due to a division between the pair and bandmates Mark Arm and Steve Turner. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing with Malfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood, in 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest and found the support of the PolyGram record label, which signed the band in early 1989. Mother Love Bones debut album, Apple, was released in July 1990, Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Gossard spent his time writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously. After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band, Shadow, had broken up, after practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band, Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his basketball buddy, San Diego, California singer Eddie Vedder. Vedder was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio and he listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him. He then recorded the vocals to three of the songs in what he described as a mini-opera entitled Momma-Son. Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition, within a week, Vedder had joined the band. With the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, the band took the name Mookie Blaylock, the band played its first official show at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle on October 22,1990, and soon signed to Epic Records and renamed themselves Pearl Jam. In a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story however, Vedder admitted that this story was total bullshit, Pearl Jam entered Seattles London Bridge Studios in March 1991 to record its debut album, Ten

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Seether
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Seether are a South African rock band founded in May 1999 in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. The band originally performed under the name Saron Gas until 2002, Disclaimer is their original album and major label debut. They have experienced continued success with number one hits on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart such as Remedy, Fake It, Country Song, the band formed in 1999 under the name Saron Gas. In 2000, the released a independent album called Fragile under their original name. As Saron Gas, the band released its first album, Fragile on Musketeer Records, upon achieving success on the South African music charts, Wind-up Records took an interest in Saron Gas melodic-yet-heavy sound and signed them to the label. The band was asked to change their name due to Saron Gas being a homophone of sarin gas, the band changed its name to Seether after the Veruca Salt song of the same name. In 2002, Seether launched their first official album, Disclaimer, the year 2002 was very trendy for Seether. Since the release of Disclaimer, the band hasnt stopped touring, Fine Again is also in the video games Madden NFL2003 and 1080 Avalanche. Following the release of Disclaimer, the band toured continually in order to increase sales, a planned second album was delayed for nearly a year when Seether was selected as the support act for an Evanescence worldwide tour. Seether reworked their acoustic ballad, Broken, as a ballad with guest vocals by Amy Lee of Evanescence. Favorable audience response led the band to record the revised version, a romance developed between Lee and Morgan during this time. Morgan has stated that the reworking of Broken was due to the wishes of the record company, an alternate version of the original album, with many of its songs remixed or rerecorded, was released in late 2004 and entitled Disclaimer II. The alternate version also featured eight extra tracks, the bands follow-up album, Karma and Effect, was released in 2005. Originally titled Catering to Cowards, the name was changed at the record labels demand, Karma and Effect debuted at number 8 on the US Billboard 200 album charts, and was certified gold in the US and Canada. The album spawned three singles, Remedy, of which frontman Morgan has spoken fondly of, Truth and The Gift, Remedy reached number 1 on the US Mainstream Rock Charts, Seethers first number 1 hit. Seether released an acoustic CD/DVD set titled One Cold Night, recorded at Grape Street, in Philadelphia, Morgan had been suffering from a stomach ailment, and decided to do an acoustic performance of their set rather than cancel the show. The exclusion of Needles and Burrito from the album is due to the desire that it contain no obscenities. Lead guitarist Patrick Callahans departure from the band was announced on 16 June 2006, No reason was given, but he apparently did not enjoy Seethers new material

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U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their live performances, the group has staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career. The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency, within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album War, by the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The groups fifth album, The Joshua Tree, made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US, With or Without You, facing a backlash and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. This experimentation continued through their album, Pop, and the PopMart Tour. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records All That You Cant Leave Behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history. The groups thirteenth album, Songs of Innocence, was released at no cost through the iTunes Store, U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the worlds best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the schools notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Mullen later described it as The Larry Mullen Band for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge. Martin, who had brought his guitar and amplifier to the first practice but could not play, did not remain with the group, the group settled on the name Feedback because it was one of the few technical terms they knew. Most of their material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte. Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as the Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful. In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for an audience at St. Fintans High School. Shortly after, the changed their name to The Hype

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Rush (band)
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Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968 in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist and backing vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer, percussionist, Rush is known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy. In the early 1990s, Rush returned to a hard rock sound. According to the RIAA, Rush ranks 80th with sales of 25 million units in the U. S, although total worldwide album sales are not calculated by any single entity, several industry sources estimated Rushs total worldwide album sales at over 40 million units as of 2004. The group has been awarded 24 gold,14 platinum, and 3 multi-platinum albums, Rush has received nominations for seven Grammy Awards. Rush announced plans to stop touring at the end of 2015. However, they have not ruled out the possibility of studio albums. The original line-up formed in the neighbourhood of Willowdale in Toronto, Ontario, by guitarist Alex Lifeson, bassist and front man Jeff Jones, and drummer John Rutsey. Within a couple of weeks of forming, and before their performance, bassist and lead vocalist Jones left the band and was replaced by Geddy Lee. After several line-up reformations, Rushs official incarnation formed in May 1971 consisting of Lee, Lifeson, the name Rush was suggested by John Rutseys brother, Bill. The band was managed by local Toronto resident Ray Danniels, a frequent attendee of Rushs early shows, side B contained an original composition, You Cant Fight It, credited to Lee and Rutsey. The single generated little reaction and, because of record company indifference, with the aid of Danniels and the newly enlisted engineer Terry Brown, the band released its self-titled debut album in 1974, which was considered highly derivative of Led Zeppelin. Rush had limited local popularity until the album was picked up by WMMS, donna Halper, a music director and DJ working at the station, selected Working Man for her regular playlist. The songs blue-collar theme resonated with hard rock fans, and this popularity led to the album being re-released by Mercury Records in the U. S. Immediately after the release of the album, Rutsey left the band due to health difficulties stemming from diabetes. His last performance with the band was on July 25,1974, at Centennial Hall in London, Rush held auditions for a new drummer and selected Neil Peart as Rutseys replacement. Peart officially joined the band on July 29,1974, two weeks before the groups first US tour. They performed their first concert together, opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann with an attendance of over 11,000 people at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 14

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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership

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R.E.M.
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R. E. M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, lead guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. Released its first single—Radio Free Europe—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone, the single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982, the bands first release on I. R. S. Following years of success, R. E. M. Achieved a mainstream hit in 1987 with the single The One I Love, the group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide. By the early 1990s, when alternative rock began to experience mainstream success, R. E. M. was viewed by subsequent acts such as Nirvana. The band then released its two most commercially successful albums, Out of Time and Automatic for the People, which veered from the established sound. R. E. M. s 1994 release, Monster, was a return to a more rock-oriented sound, the band began its first tour in six years to support the album, the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three of the band members. Re-signed with Warner Bros. for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract in history and its 1996 release, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, though critically acclaimed, fared worse commercially than expected. The following year, Bill Berry left the band, while Stipe, Buck, in 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in their first year of eligibility. Disbanded amicably in September 2011, announcing the split on its website, in January 1980, Michael Stipe met Peter Buck in Wuxtry Records, the Athens record store where Buck worked. The pair discovered that they shared similar tastes in music, particularly in rock and protopunk artists like Patti Smith, Television. Stipe said, It turns out that I was buying all the records that was saving for himself, Stipe and Buck soon met fellow University of Georgia students Mike Mills and Bill Berry, who had played music together since high school and lived together in Georgia. The quartet agreed to collaborate on songs, Stipe later commented that there was never any grand plan behind any of it. Their still-unnamed band spent a few months rehearsing and played its first show on April 5,1980, at a friends birthday party held in a converted Episcopal church in Athens. After considering names like Twisted Kites, Cans of Piss, and Negro Wives, the band members eventually dropped out of school to focus on their developing group. They found a manager in Jefferson Holt, a store clerk who was so impressed by an R. E. M. performance in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. R. E. M. s success was almost immediate in Athens and surrounding areas, the band drew progressively larger crowds for shows, over the next year and a half, R. E. M. Toured throughout the Southern United States, touring was arduous because a touring circuit for alternative rock bands did not then exist

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So Cold (Breaking Benjamin song)
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So Cold is a song by American post-grunge/alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin. It was released in March 2004 as the single from second album. Despite never having reached the number 1 spot on the Mainstream Rock Chart, the single was certified platinum by the RIAA on September 25,2015, the same day the bands debut album Saturate was certified Gold. The song was released the day as Three Days Graces song Just Like You. In an interview with Guitar World, Aaron Fink and Ben Burnley said that the movie 28 Days Later was an inspiration while writing the song because of its feeling of desolation, the music video of So Cold was directed by Frank Borin. Its story takes place in the 19th century, judging by the style of clothing, the scene then shifts to a group of people walking in a forest. One man can be carrying a large stone with the Breaking Benjamin Celtic knot on it. The man, who is being punished for infidelity towards his wife, is shackled to the stone throughout the video, towards the end, the group of people arrive at the swamp where the preacher stands. The man carrying the stone walks into the swamp and drowns and his wife appears in a black robe while the woman he cheated with wears a white robe. So Cold EP is an EP which was released on November 23,2004 and it was originally going to be titled the So Cold EP. The EP contains 5 songs, three were recorded live, So Cold, Away and Breakdown and two were studio recorded material, Blow Me Away and Lady Bug, kevin Soffera appears on the tracks Away and Breakdown

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Breaking Benjamin
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Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, founded in 1999 by lead singer and guitarist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel. The first lineup of the band included guitarist Aaron Fink. This lineup released two albums, Saturate and We Are Not Alone, before Hummel was replaced by Chad Szeliga in 2005, the band released two more studio albums, Phobia and Dear Agony, before entering an extended hiatus in early 2010 due to Burnleys recurring illnesses. Szeliga later announced his departure in 2013 citing creative differences, the band afterward released Dark Before Dawn in 2015. Despite significant lineup changes, the musical style and lyrical content has remained consistent, with Burnley serving as the primary composer. The band has commonly noted for its formulaic hard rock tendencies with angst-heavy lyrics, swelling choruses. The band has produced one number one record on the Billboard 200. Benjamin Burnley was originally in a band named Breaking Benjamin in 1998 that played music such as Weezer and The Beatles covers. The name originates from an incident in which Burnley broke a borrowed microphone, prompting its owner to retort and this band included guitarist Aaron Fink, bassist Nick Hoover, and drummer Chris Lightcap, but soon broke up when Burnley moved to California. After returning to Pennsylvania with drummer Jeremy Hummel, Burnley formed Plan 9, the three-piece first gained attention when Freddie Fabbri, a DJ for active rock radio station WBSX, put the groups track Polyamorous in rotation. After it became the one requested track on the station, Fabbri financed the recording of the groups eponymous EP. Jonathan Bug Price was credited on bass, replacing Davoli, after growing dissatisfied with their previous band, former bandmate Aaron Fink and bassist Mark Klepaski joined Breaking Benjamin. In early 2002, over a dozen record companies visited a two-night showcase where Breaking Benjamin was playing, shortly afterward, Breaking Benjamin began recording their first full-length major-label record, Saturate, which was released on August 7,2002 and produced by Ulrich Wild. It peaked at No.136 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold on September 25,2015. In early 2003, Breaking Benjamin participated in the Jägermeister Music Tour, the disc received a favorable review from Schwegwebs Vin Cherubino, who noted, The music has just as much quality as any popular artist in the same genre. Influences from bands such as Tool can be heard, making the music seem all so familiar, Breaking Benjamin returned to the studio in October 2003 with producer David Bendeth for their sophomore effort We Are Not Alone. Burnley also worked with The Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan over the course of six days in December 2003 to write the songs Rain, Forget It, despite initially being nervous, Burnley felt it was one of the highlights of his career. The album was released on June 29,2004 and sold 48,000 copies in its first week and it was later certified gold on October 21,2004, then platinum on June 13,2005

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Cold (Crossfade song)
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Cold is the first single released in May 2004 by the rock band Crossfade. It was the single released from their debut full-length self-titled album Crossfade in 2004. It fared exceptionally well on charts worldwide and is their biggest hit to date. Mainstream Rock Tracks, and #2 on the U. S, modern Rock Tracks, as well as reaching #48 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was released as content for Rock Band 3. The video was directed by Martin Weisz and it features the band playing in a dark room of a house. A woman walks in the house, standing and admiring the band performing for a while and she then walks up to Ed Sloan, but he continues to play and ignores her. She then walks into his room, falls on his bed and she proceeds to pack some items into a bag and walks back to where the band is playing, towards Sloan. The woman stands there for a while, then she goes back into the bathroom and she picks up a picture of the two of them, and throws it into the toilet, symbolizing the end of the relationship. She takes a toothbrush and then walks through Sloan, who becomes transparent--making a reference to how he was never there for her. She goes out of the bathroom, to the door, Sloan looks at her, then looks away. She leaves the house, presumably for good, many fans compare the voice of Crossfade´s lead singer to that of James Hetfield, lead singer for Metallica, describing ones voice as indistinguishable from the other. Some also note a physical resemblance, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
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Hemorrhage is a song by the rock band Fuel, released as the first single from their second album Something Like Human. The song has surpassed Shimmer to be Fuels biggest hit to date, the single was #1 for 12 weeks on the U. S. Modern Rock Tracks chart and is the bands most successful song to date, an acoustic version is a bonus track on the special edition. It also hit #2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, also their highest charting single on the chart, the song was also Billboard magazines #5 Rock Song of the Decade according to their Best of the 2000s Rock Songs chart. In 2013 Hemorrhage became the No.6 Alternative Rock song of the past 25 years according to Billboards Alternative Chart 25th Anniversary, to date, Hemorrhage is Fuels highest charting single on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #30. It also peaked #17 on the Adult Top 40 chart and #22 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, the string section featured on the electric version was arranged by David Campbell. Carl Bell explained on an episode of VH1 Storytellers in 2001 stating This is as deep as it goes, when I was younger, my grandmother got cancer. By the time found it, it was much too late. Instead of sitting in some hospital, she wanted to go home, and my mother and my aunts and their husbands went to sit with her at home. A few months passed, and the cancer had spread, it had eaten up most of her body and all of her hope, one particular day was a really bad day for her. My mother was sitting with her that evening, and she turned to my mom and it crushed my mom, and its still crushing me. On the show Abercrombie stated Chris, if you are watching, weve talked about this before, Daughtry, although flattered, eventually declined the offer, opting to form his own band, Daughtry, instead. The song appears on the game Karaoke Revolution Presents, American Idol Encore, in the music video Hemorrhage, the red car is a 1971 Buick Riviera. All songs by Carl Bell except where noted, Hemorrhage Easy Stripped Away Going to California Hemorrhage Official music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Fuel (band)
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Kemble Walters Fuel is an American rock band formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the name to Fuel in 1994. They are known for their hit songs Shimmer from Sunburn, Hemorrhage and Bad Day from Something Like Human, the band has sold nearly four million records worldwide. They have released five albums, most recently Puppet Strings in 2014. No original members of the band remain, except for vocalist Brett Scallions, Carl Bell and Jeff Abercrombie, childhood friends, started playing music together in junior high and high school. After graduating high school Bell, who was a few years older than Abercrombie, Bell and Abbott formed a college campus band, Wanted in Henderson, Tennessee. The band Wanted transitioned into Phoenix, which was a band for the college primarily used to recruit prospective students. Lead vocalist-guitarist Brett Scallions joined the group after bassist Jeff Abercrombie saw him performing in a bar in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1993, the band made a choice to go under a different name when showcasing its own original material. That name for the time being would be Small The Joy which put out one EP in 1994, before the release of their second EP Porcelain the band once again decided to change its name, this time settling on the name Fuel. The band released their second EP Porcelain in 1996 as well as repackaged their first EP Small The Joy with the Fuel name on it, Porcelain sold well locally, spawning a small radio hit with Shimmer. The popularity of the EP brought them to the attention of Sonys 550 imprint, upon signing to Epic, the band entered Longview Farm recording studios in Massachusetts, along with producer Steven Haigler and session drummer Jonathan Mover due to problems with Abbott. The bands full-length debut, Sunburn, came out in 1998, the songs Shimmer and Sunburn are also featured on the charitable album Live in the X Lounge. Sunburn was also featured in the movie Scream 3, and the band contributed the non-LP track Walk the Sky to the 1998 American Godzilla film, the band hit the road in support of the release. Once again due to problems with Abbott, Mover was enlisted, the band picture includes Miller, though he did not play on the record. The album Sunburn was the bands first Gold and Platinum selling record, in 2000, Fuel came back with their second album, Something Like Human, featuring the single Hemorrhage which was No.1 for 12 weeks on the U. S. The single was also named Billboards No.5 Rock Song of the Decade according to their Best of the 2000s Rock Songs chart. In 2013 Hemorrhage became the No.6 Alternative Rock song of the past 25 years according to Billboards Alternative Chart 25th Anniversary, Something Like Human peaked at No.17 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA on September 25,2001. The groups third album, Natural Selection, named after Darwinian theory, was released in September 2003, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004 for best engineered album, and the band contributed the song Wont Back Down to the Daredevil soundtrack earlier in the year

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Headstrong (Trapt song)
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Headstrong is the debut single from the band Trapt and the lead single from their 2002 self-titled debut album. It reached No.1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts and No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it crossed over to mainstream pop radio, peaking at No.4 on Billboard Mainstream Top 40. The song also won two Billboard Music Awards in 2003 for Best Modern Rock Track and Best Rock Track and it was featured on the video game Karaoke Revolution Party. Headstrong was rated the No.1 alternative song and No.8 rock song of the decade of the 2000s by Billboard, a music video was produced for Headstrong which largely focuses on the band performing in front of a crowd. Paper and other debris are seen flying past in furious winds as the plays in an urban nighttime setting. The video found airplay on MTV2 and MMUSA upon release. The video was directed by Brian Scott Weber, Headstrong is also in the films Grind and Never Back Down, and was used in previews for the Bruce Willis film Tears of the Sun and a trailer for the movie Aeon Flux. It also served as Seth Skyfire and Shelly Martinezs entrance music while in Ohio Valley Wrestling as well as the song for WWE Bad Blood 2003. It was also used to introduce the players for the Philadelphia Phantoms. It is the current television introduction theme for TKO Major League MMA, the song was used as the introduction theme to the Shinhan Bank Starleague in 2005. The Tampa Bay Lightning mixed this song with highlights from their run in 2003–2004 season. The song was used as the introduction to the first season of Nopi Tunervision which featured Dalene Curtis as the host. The song appeared in a commercial for the premiere of the new season of Pros vs. Joes on Spike TV, in fall 2012, it was also used in a commercial for the season premiere of CMTs Redneck Island. Headstrong –4,46 Promise –3,49 Hollowman –5,03 Total Length,13,38 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Trapt
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Trapt is an American rock band that formed in Los Gatos, California in 1995, best known for their 2002 single Headstrong. The group consists of lead vocalist Chris Taylor Brown, bassist Peter Pete Charell, drummer Brendan Hengle and they have released seven studio albums to date, Amalgamation, Trapt, Someone in Control, Only Through the Pain, No Apologies, Reborn and DNA. The members of Trapt met in school in the mid-90s. Shortly thereafter, the reformed and developed an act with Chris Taylor Brown, Simon Ormandy, Peter Pete Charell. The bands first few rehearsals were in Ormandys guesthouse, which had an atmosphere with its loft overlooking the living room. They began playing at venues in 1997 before any members had graduated high school. The band received a response and a positive buzz soon started to grow. In 1998, still before graduation, they were opening for up-and-coming fellow acts like Papa Roach. They recorded and released their first CD, Amalgamation in 1999 and their second release, the Glimpse EP, came in 2000, and another EP, 2001s self-titled Trapt, served as the bands demo. Between the strength of these releases and the successes in touring, the debut independent release by Trapt, released in June 1999 and sold only in the Los Gatos, California area. The album was a success, selling over 900 copies by the end of 1999. This album sports a different sound compared to later releases, with vocalist Chris Taylor Brown rapping in every song. The Glimpse was an EP that was released independently in 2000. The band proceeded to sign with Warner Bros. Records and started recording their debut album, on November 5,2002 the band released their self-titled album, Trapt, which produced a total of three singles. The second single from the album, Still Frame, also managed to achieve No.1 spot on the US Mainstream Rock chart, the third single, Echo peaked at No.10 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The Trapt album was certified platinum by the RIAA, although not a single, the last song on the album, New Beginning, was featured in the film Dragon Ball Z, The Return of Cooler. Their second full-length album, titled Someone in Control, was released September 13,2005 and it produced three singles for the band, Stand Up, Waiting, and Disconnected. While these singles didnt do as well as released from the first album

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Loser (3 Doors Down song)
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Loser is a song by American rock band 3 Doors Down. It was released in July 2000 as the single from their debut album The Better Life. The power ballad spent 21 weeks at the position on the Billboard U. S. Mainstream Rock chart, a record for the chart. Lead singer Brad Arnold wrote the song about a friend who became addicted to cocaine

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Awake (Godsmack song)
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Awake is the lead single and title track from Godsmacks second studio album. In an MTV online chat, Godsmack vocalist Sully Erna said that Awake is Godsmack getting some closure, Erna then said, Thats me getting closure on a relationship. Im just saying that now Im awake, and Im able to deal with everything I have to deal with, where before I felt like I was going to lose control without this person in my life. Im saying that Im okay now without that person, Awake was released to radio on October 3,2000. The song was on the Mainstream Rock chart for 53 weeks, Awake also was on the Alternative Songs chart for 27 weeks and peaked at number 12 on the Alternative Songs chart. Awake was on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart for 24 weeks, Awake was nominated for the Rock Single of the Year category at the 2001 Billboard Music Awards. With the popularity of Awake, Godsmacks album of the name was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA in March 2002. The music video made for this single was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, the video contains footage of prisoners rioting and leaving the reformatory and seeing Godsmack play in the exercise yard inside a fenced-in area. The music video was produced by the band, there are three versions of Awake, the first version, which is the original version, appeared on Godsmack second studio album, Awake. The second version is an edit which appeared on the single release of the song, and the third is an acoustic version called Asleep. The radio edit is the song as the album version. The album and acoustic versions have very similar lyrics but different sound, the acoustic version runs for 3,58, making it closer to the radio edit than the full album version. This song was featured prominently in the Nash Bridges episode Manhunt that first aired on November 3,2000 and it was also featured in the game Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX2 and The One starring Jet Li. Since the mid-2000s, the song has featured extensively in the U. S. Navys Accelerate Your Life commercials. The Godsmack album Awakes opening track, Sick of Life, would also be used in the campaign, the song also made an appearance on several compilations including the band greatest hits album, Good Times, Bad Times. Ten Years of Godsmack, WWF Tough Enough, Kerrang, Life Is Loud, the song features as the background track in the promos of the 2006 Bollywood film Fight Club. What we support is our troops, and the women and men that go over there — or anywhere — to fight for our country and our lives and protect our freedom and I feel that. So what I have to do is at least support them, some critics say that the bands young audience will now be influenced to join the military because of the popular tunes

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Wasteland (10 Years song)
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Wasteland is a single released by hard rock band 10 Years in 2005. It is their single from their first major release, The Autumn Effect. It also spent an unprecedented ten weeks at the two position on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was featured on the bands independent second album Killing All That Holds You. The album was reissued with four acoustic tracks. The acoustic tracks were recorded live by Mike D for Lakeside Studios, the first music video was a representation of the song and featured Jesse Haseks cousin and child actor, Brad Renfro, who, had a long struggle with drug abuse, was the inspiration for the song. It was directed by Scott Lee and this music video has been removed from many websites including YouTube. A second music video was a metaphorical representation using a fish flopping around on a dry lake bed, directed by Chris Simms, this version can only be seen online. The third and final video released for the song addressed the social problem of human rights around the world. This video was directed by Kevin Kerslake, the video received nominations for Best Direction and Best Art Direction at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. In Brazil, this song was featured in a video for the TV series Heroes. The first and second music videos used the recording of the song from the album Killing All That Holds You, the third video also contains the Amnesty International in the beginning of the video. At the bottom right corner, it disappears when it cuts to another shot. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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10 Years (band)
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10 Years is an American alternative metal band, formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999. The band consists of Jesse Hasek, Ryan Johnson, Brian Vodinh, Chad Huff, to date, they have released seven albums, the latest of which, From Birth to Burial, was released in April 2015. 10 Years were initially formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999 with singer Mike Underdown, drummer Brian Vodinh, bassist Lewis Cosby, in 2001, Cosby left and the band recruited Andy Parks on bass. They independently recorded Into the Half Moon the same year, lead vocalist Mike Underdown left the band to pursue a career in acting and start up a new band, Courage, You Bastards, in Los Angeles, California. 10 Years soon recruited current vocalist Jesse Hasek from another local band, in 2002, Parks decided to leave the band and Cosby returned. The band then released their independent album Killing All That Holds You in 2004 and their first single, Wasteland spent over 12 months on the rock charts, finally reaching No.1 at active rock radio in December 2005. That same summer, the band toured with Disturbed and Ill Niño, in the fall of 2005, they toured with Breaking Benjamin and Smile Empty Soul, then followed up with the Masters of Horror tour with Mudvayne and Sevendust. They opened for Korn and Mudvayne on Korns See You on the Other Side tour and they also toured with Korn and Deftones on the Family Values Tour, which started in late July 2006. In mid February 2006, Wasteland reached No.1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, Wasteland has been certified Gold by the RIAA. In mid-2006, the band toured Australia in a lineup which included Hatebreed, Disturbed and their first music video, Wasteland, addresses the social problem of human rights as well as addiction around the world. The video received a nomination for Best Direction and Best Art Direction at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, on March 27,2006, an EP was released on iTunes containing acoustic versions of Wasteland, Prey, Through The Iris and Faultline from The Autumn Effect. On November 19,2006,10 Years unveiled and confirmed the title Division for their second album, the band would begin recording Division in late June 2007 after spending the better part of a year writing. Lewis told in an interview that the album is so different from the first one, but its still 10 Years, and, It just sounds like would be from a different band, which was, you know. It was also revealed that the track titled Focus was co-written with Stone Temple Pilots and former Army of Anyone guitarist Dean DeLeo. On May 21,2007 a demo song titled All Your Lies from Division was released onto their MySpace along with a post stating the band had chosen producer Rick Parasher to produce the new album. A year later on January 29,2008, Beautiful, the new single from Division, was released to iTunes, Division was released on May 13,2008 after being pushed back due to finalization of the albums artwork. 10 Years was featured on the Revolution Stage of Linkin Parks Summer Projekt Revolution 2008 tour with Atreyu, Hawthorne Heights and they went on tour with Mudvayne until mid December 2008. On August 2009, Matt Wantland announced he was leaving the band to other interests

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Paralyzer
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Paralyzer is the first single from the Canadian rock band Finger Elevens fifth album, Them vs. It was released in March 2007, Finger Elevens frontman Scott Anderson has said that the single has a feel distinct from the rest of Finger Elevens music, possessing more of a funk rock or dance-rock sound. However, the song has also characterized as alternative rock. The song has surpassed One Thing to be Finger Elevens most successful single, One is the original CD version, while the other two are radio edit versions, in which the line containing the word shitty is either censored or replaced with shady. The song alludes to the bands prior hit One Thing with the lyric I should just stay home, if one thing really means one, in addition, the style of the song has been compared to Take Me Out, a 2004 single by indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. The song is played during the New York Islanders warm-ups at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and it has been featured on the television series Gossip Girl and Greek. The song is also a song in the rhythm game Band Hero by Activision. This song is even on the Rock Band Network, and was introduced as DLC into Rocksmith by Ubisoft. The video was released on YouTube and it starts with a man, walking, who begins to intersperse his steps with dance moves. He looks into windows and in the reflection, he himself with dancers around him. The two begin to dance with the symbolic dancers returning in greater numbers every time the chorus repeats, the video alternates between shots of the band playing on a rooftop that overlooks the dancers in a seemingly abandoned street. The video reached #8 on VH1s weekly VSpot Top 20 Countdown, on the channels year-end Top 40 Videos of 2007, it placed at number 23, despite only having spent one week on its weekly Top 20 Countdown. The music video was taped in downtown Los Angeles, as evidenced by the One Wilshire building located in the background in some shots, Paralyzer debuted on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 at #97 in June 2007. It proceeded to gain in airplay and digital sales over the months. For the chart week of November 24,2007, it became the bands first-career Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, rising from #14 to #10 for that catalog week. The song then proceeded to reach a new peak of #6 on the Hot 100 over a month later, the song became the bands first #1 on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts. The record has since broken by Rise Againsts Savior. The song topped 3 million digital downloads in the United States in late December 2010, and as of January 2015, the track peaked at #12 on the Australian Singles Chart based on downloads alone, an amazing achievement considering eighty percent of single sales come from physical releases

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Finger Eleven
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Finger Eleven is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 1990. They have released seven studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream. They won the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2008 and it was later certified gold status in the US and multi platinum in Canada. They released their studio album, Life Turns Electric, on October 5,2010. They released their first single, Living in a Dream, adding a bit of more of funk rock and dance rock. Five Crooked Lines, their 7th studio album, was released July 31,2015, with Wolves, Finger Eleven first formed in their high school, Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario as Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They achieved a following in Canada throughout their time as a band. One of their first shows was at a school Christmas concert in 1990 and they released their first full album Letters from Chutney with money won from a rock band search contest on 97.7 CHTZ HTZ FMs Rocksearch competition. The group found a new management team in Coalition Entertainment in 1996, once they had realized their music changed and wanted to be taken more seriously, Rainbow Butt Monkeys became Finger Eleven. The name Finger Eleven comes from a version of the song Thin Spirits from the album Tip. Scott Anderson explains, when everything is pushing you in one direction and your instinct drives you in another thats finger eleven and their breakthrough album, Tip, was released on Mercury Records in Canada in 1997 and re-released by Windup Records in the United States in 1998. This marked a change in the bands sound, Tip was produced by Arnold Lanni. By then, they managed to tour alongside bands such as Creed, in 2000, Finger Eleven released The Greyest of Blue Skies, again produced by Arnold Lanni. They had success in Canada with this album going gold, in 2002 they recorded the song Slow Chemical for Superstar Kane as his entrance music, which he used from 2002 to 2008. It was also released on the 2004 album The Punisher, The Album and their 2003 release, self-titled album Finger Eleven was produced by Johnny K. This album includes the hit single One Thing which pushed the band into the mainstream. The song was a hit on rock, pop, and adult radio charts, One Thing reached No.16 in the U. S. and had exposure on TV series such as Scrubs, Smallville and Third Watch. It was used on World Wrestling Entertainments edition of June 25,2007 of Raw during a video featuring Chris Benoit who had killed himself on June 25

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Remedy (Seether song)
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Remedy is a song by post-grunge and alternative metal band Seether. Interspersed are shots of singer Shaun Morgan dressed up as a carnival barker taking a group of people on the worlds most terrifying ride. It also served as the song for WWEs pay-per-view Summerslam 2005. It is a song in the video game Guitar Hero On Tour. It was released as a song in the Rock Band Network on March 18,2010. The song also appeared in the racing game Test Drive Unlimited, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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It's Been Awhile
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Its Been Awhile is a song recorded by American rock band Staind. It was released in March 2001 as the single from their album Break the Cycle. The song is Stainds most successful and is their song, becoming a No.5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The narrator is someone who takes stock of his life and makes references to his previous drug addiction problem, the narrator mentions their father, though they believe that they only have themselves to blame for their problems. Lewis called the song, an acknowledgement of the past, eric Aiese of Billboard reviewed the song favourably, saying that the group handles the ballad well and packs a lot of punch into the cut. Aiese said that the song may be the groups greatest splash yet and its Been Awhile Its Been Awhile Suffocate The music video begins with Aaron Lewis going through some old photographs, one of which happens to be the picture of his wife. The video then switches between him writing a letter to his wife and the band performing casually in a full of candles. There are brief shots of Aaron alone in the streets and looking at himself in the mirror while having second thoughts, throughout the video, Aaron is seen continuously smoking cigarettes. At the end of the video, one of those cigarettes falls onto the floor, the video was directed by Limp Bizkit frontman, Fred Durst. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Staind
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Staind was an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist and backing vocalist Johnny April, and drummer Jon Wysocki. To date, the band has recorded seven albums, Tormented, Dysfunction, Break the Cycle,14 Shades of Grey, Chapter V, The Illusion of Progress. The band has sold over 15 million records worldwide, Staind formed in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1995. The band started covering Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Tool, and Alice in Chains, among others, and played at local clubs for a year and a half. Staind self-released their debut album, Tormented, in November 1996, citing Pantera, during this time, Staind acquired a concert slot through Aarons cousin Justin Cantor with Limp Bizkit. Just prior to the performance, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst was appalled by Stainds grotesque album cover and his perception changed, however, after being impressed with their performance. On April 13,1999, Staind released its major label debut Dysfunction on Flip Records, the album, which was co-produced by Fred Durst and Terry Date, received comparisons to metal giants Tool and Korn. In particular, Aaron Lewis was lauded for his vocals, which were likened to those of Pearl Jams Eddie Vedder, the album achieved slow success, with the album reaching the No.1 spot on Billboards Heatseeker Charts almost six months after its debut. In the same week, the album jumped to No.74 on Billboards Top 200 Album Charts, the nine-track LP produced three singles, Just Go, Mudshovel, and Home. Mudshovel and Home both received radio play, cracking the Top 20 of Billboards Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts. In promotion of Dysfunction, Staind went on tours, including the Family Values Tour with acts like Limp Bizkit and The Crystal Method. Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the fall of 1999, Staind released their third studio album Break the Cycle on May 22,2001. Propelled by the success of their first single Its Been Awhile, the albums first week sales were the second highest of any album that year. The album saw the band retaining their previous nu metal sound from their previous album and its Been Awhile, Fade, Outside, For You, and the acoustic ballad Epiphany. Its Been Awhile spent a total of 16 and 14 weeks on top of the modern and mainstream charts, respectively. In 2001, Break the Cycle sold four million copies worldwide, Break the Cycle would go on to sell seven million copies worldwide, making this Stainds best selling album. The album saw a departure from their previous nu metal sound, the album provided two mainstream hits, the lead single Price to Play and So Far Away, which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart

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Higher (Creed song)
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Higher is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released in August 1999 as the single from their second studio album. Vocalist Scott Stapp and long-time friend Steven Harang wrote the song about the power of lucid dreaming, Higher was Creeds major breakthrough hit which helped to place them firmly in the American mainstream music scene. It peaked at seven on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated July 22,2000, and spent 57 weeks upon the survey. Furthermore, it topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock tallies in the process, setting a then-record of 17 weeks for longest stay at the top of the Mainstream Rock chart and it also charted in the top five on the Adult Top 40 chart. According to an interview with Loudwire, in an episode of Wikipedia, Fact Or Fiction, during their earliest shows, vocalist Scott Stapp would placate the audience by goading his bandmates to come up with a song live on the spot. Scott was the first to begin playing the set piece. After reviewing the tapes of the show, as they had recorded their performances for later review. Later on, in episode of Loudwires Wikipedia, Fact Or Fiction. Stapp stated that the inspiration for the song came from a dream that he had. In the endlessly present nightmare, Stapp would be hunted down, once he took up studying Lucid Dreaming, he was able to escape the gunman, and subsequently wrote the song as a memento towards the dream. Higher placed at #95 on VH1s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs in 2009, American rock band A Day to Remember was set to play at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards. The problem was that Lead singer, Jeremy McKinnon, was running late due to his flight, the band told the crowd that they needed a singer, and Creed vocalist, Scott Stapp volunteered for to perform with the band. Until McKinnons arrival, Higher and A Day to Remembers song All I Want was performed with Stapp, Higher appeared in the films The Skulls and 22 Jump Street. The song had appeared in the official trailers for Titan A. E. The book The Ishbane Conspiracy mentions the song, the song was released as downloadable content for the musical video game, Rock Band 2. In the film Neighbors, the fraternity boys of Delta Psi sang the first line from the chorus during the meeting after reciting their version of Sigma Nus creed. List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1990s List of Billboard number-one alternative singles of the 1990s Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Creed (band)
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Creed is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida. The bands best-known line-up consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, Creed released two studio albums, My Own Prison in 1997 and Human Clay in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000. The bands third album, Weathered, was released in 2001 with Tremonti handling bass before the band disbanded in 2004 due to increasing tension between members, Tremonti, Marshall, and Phillips went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. In 2009, after months of speculation, Creed reunited for a new album called Full Circle, another album was planned, but has since been shelved. The instrumental members turned their back to Alter Bridge and Tremonti formed his own band. There are currently no plans for Creed to resume, becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond. Creed has sold over 28 million records in the United States, Creed is often recognized as one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement that began in the late 1990s. Creeds origins lie in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida, founding members vocalist Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti had been classmates in high school and friends at Florida State University. Upon reuniting, Stapp and Tremonti realized that they had a love for writing music. By the end of 1995, rhythm guitarist Brian Brasher left the band, Creed then decided to remain as a four-piece band. The four musicians had already written and collaborated on four of the songs that would go on to become tracks on Creeds chart-topping debut album, the band found local success and began to play shows in bars and small venues throughout Tallahassee. Their original band name, Naked Toddler, was based on a newspaper story and this was poorly received by their fans, so they settled on Creed, a nod to Marshalls previous band Mattox Creed. With a new name, exactly the sound they had before and several new songs written. Wanting a real show at a club, they managed to persuade the owner of a bar in Tallahassee to book them by claiming that they could guarantee an audience of 200 people. For their first recordings he matched the band up with John Kurzweg, together they recorded their debut album for $6,000, which was funded by Hanson. The album, titled My Own Prison, was initially self-released on their own label, Blue Collar Records, meltzer later said that she heard an arena band. According to Hanson, before Wind-up signed Creed, fourteen labels had already passed on the band and my Own Prison was remixed, given a more radio-friendly sound, and re-released by Wind-up Records. Four singles were released from the album, My Own Prison, Torn, Whats This Life For, each of these songs reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, making Creed the first band to accomplish such a feat with a debut album

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When I'm Gone (3 Doors Down song)
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When Im Gone is a song by American rock band 3 Doors Down. It was released in October 2002 as the single from their second album. It peaked at No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 2003, the song also spent seventeen weeks atop the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from November 2002 through March 2003, becoming one of the longest-running number-one singles on that chart. The song also peaked No.2 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart almost reaching No.1 by one spot from Queens of the Stone Ages No One Knows on the issue dated February 15,2003. It spent one week atop the Top 40 Mainstream chart for one week on May 3,2003, there are 2 videos for the song. The official music video was directed by The Emperor and it features the band performing live on the USS George Washington in the Mediterranean Sea on October 2,2002. The video is dedicated to all personnel who are fighting overseas. The original video features the members in a swamp, being buried alive while playing. It only aired on Much Music USA in the US. AUS version When Im Gone -4,20 Changes -3,56 Living a Lie -3,35 Pop Song 3,12 Tracks Off Various Versions When Im Gone -3,02 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Touch, Peel and Stand
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Touch, Peel and Stand is a song by the rock band Days of the New and the lead single from their self-titled debut album. It was released in 1997 and remains arguably the bands most popular, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and retained the spot for a then-record sixteen weeks. On their list of Top Mainstream Rock Songs of the Decade, shortly after this success, the song rose to #6 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming their first Top 10 hit on the chart. Touch, Peel and Stand is known for its raw, acoustic feel, despite the fact that Travis Meeks writes the majority of the songs by Days of the New, and considers it his own personal project, he has praised Matt Tauls cymbal-heavy percussion in the song. In a 2008 interview, Meeks noted, As far as I’m concerned, the cover art of the Touch, Peel and Stand CD single borrows a photograph from the bands debut album liner notes. This depicts the Wrestling Superstars figure of George The Animal Steele, the rubber figure is heavily battered with both his head and left arm torn off. The music video for Touch, Peel and Stand, directed by Frank W. Ockenfels 3, has a young man watching TV in a filthy. On the TV screen, the band is performing the song in a gray, open-spaced room and he eventually becomes enraged and tosses furniture around the room before entering the bathroom and cutting off his long hair and shaving his head bald. Photos of the band are seen throughout his house, the man is eventually seen, with clothes neatly tucked in, facing a closed curtain while the band continues to perform in the TV screen. The song was performed live on the Late Show with David Letterman on November 28,1997. Touch, Peel and Stand was featured on compilations like X-Games, Vol.3 in 1998, Shine. in 2000, and Total Rock and Crossing All Over, Vol.7 in 2002. It can also be found on the soundtrack to Hitman Hart, Wrestling with Shadows released in 1999 and Days of the New, in January 2006, the song was featured in a TV commercial for TLCs reality television program Beyond the Bull. The song was played in the 9th episode of the first season of Dawsons Creek in 1998, the CD single, released in 1998, also includes two B-sides, Independent Slaves and Got to be You. The former was included on the Crow, Salvation soundtrack while the latter appeared on 2 Guitars, Bass & Drums. Touch, Peel and Stand Independent Slaves Got to Be You Touch, Peel and Stand Music Video @ AOL Music

Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in

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An 1896 issue of Billboard

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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).

Eric Clapton
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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important, Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest

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Clapton performing at Hyde Park, London in June 2008

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Appearing at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the first time in 1964, Clapton has since performed at the venue over 200 times.

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Clapton (right) with Cream

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Clapton's The Fool guitar (replica shown), with its bright artwork and famous "woman tone", was symbolic of the 1960s psychedelic rock era.

Van Halen
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Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985, the band consisted of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, the band went on to become major stars, and by the early 1980s they were one of the most successful rock acts of the time. 1984 was their most succes

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Vocalist Gary Cherone (pictured in 2008) joined the band briefly in the late 1990s

Three Days Grace
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Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band formed in Norwood, Ontario in 1997. Based in Toronto, the bands original line-up consisted of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer and backing vocalist Neil Sanderson, in 2003, Barry Stock was recruited as the bands lead guitarist. In 2013, Gontier left the band and was replaced by My Darkest Da

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Three Days Grace at X-Fest 2006 in Indianapolis

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The band at the Buzz Bake Sale in 2007

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Founding frontman Adam Gontier left the band in 2013.

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Matt Walst of My Darkest Days replaced original band member, Adam Gontier, as lead vocalist

Shinedown
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Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The group has released five albums, Leave a Whisper, Us and Them, The Sound of Madness, Amaryllis, the bands origins trace back to frontman Brent Smiths prior band, Dreve, which had signed a record deal with Atlantic Records in 2000. The record label, unhappy with Dreve as a whole, drop

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Shinedown in 2012

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Shinedown live in 2008

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Zach Myers performing in 2013.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida. In 1976, the original lineup was Tom Petty as the lead singer and guitar player, Mike Campbell as the lead guitarist, Ron Blair on bass, Stan Lynch on drums. The band has maintained this lineup, with a few exceptions. In 1981, Blair, who was tired of the touring li

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performing live in Indianapolis June 23, 2006

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Tom Petty, the band's primary vocalist and songwriter

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1977 photo of band

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Hollywood walk of fame star

Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whi

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Aerosmith appear in a " Wayne's World " sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1990.

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The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith opened at Walt Disney World in 1999.

Metallica
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Metallica is an American heavy metal band based in San Rafael, California. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper, Metallicas current line-up comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett

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Metallica in London in 2008. From left to right: Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo.

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Metallica during the Damaged Justice tour

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Ulrich, pictured in London in 2008, led the case against Napster.

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Robert Trujillo, pictured in London in 2008, was announced as Metallica's new bassist on February 24, 2003.

3 Doors Down
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3 Doors Down is an American rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi, that formed in 1996. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold, Todd Harrell, and they were soon joined by rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson. The band rose to fame with their first single, Kryptonite. The band then signed with Republic Records and released their album, The Better

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3 Doors Down live in Laredo, Texas

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3 Doors Down performing in 2008

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Todd Harrell, Brad Arnold and Matt Roberts performing in 2011.

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The Better Life Foundation

Nickelback
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Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. The band is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. The band went through a few drummer changes between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current form when Adai

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Nickelback performing in Brisbane in November 2012 during the Here and Now Tour. From left to right: Ryan Peake, Daniel Adair, Chad Kroeger and Mike Kroeger

Collective Soul
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Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia. Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of lead vocalist Ed Roland, rhythm guitarist Dean Roland, bassist Will Turpin, drummer Johnny Rabb, before forming Collective Soul, singer Ed Roland studied music composition and guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, M

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Collective Soul performing in Austin on November 17, 2012.

Foo Fighters
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Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. The group got its name from the UFOs and various phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II. The band began with perf

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Foo Fighters performing in November 2007. From left to right: Chris Shiflett, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Nate Mendel

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Dave Grohl (pictured in 2006) founded Foo Fighters after his previous band Nirvana ended in 1994

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Long-time drummer Taylor Hawkins (pictured in 2012) joined the band in 1997

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Foo Fighters performing an acoustic show in 2007

John Mellencamp
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John J Mellencamp, also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, Paper in Fire, and Cherry Bomb. He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit one on

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Mellencamp in 2014

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Mellencamp (right) and his band perform at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2007.

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John Mellencamp and Sheryl Crow perform Mellencamp's 2008 single "My Sweet Love" in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia on November 29, 2008.

Godsmack
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Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, since its formation, Godsmack which has resulted in six studio albums, one EP, four DVDs, one compilation album, and one live album. The band has had thr

Pearl Jam
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the bands line-up has comprised Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, the bands fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar has also been a member with the band since 2002. Drummers Dave Krusen, Matt Cha

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Pearl Jam performing in 2012. From left to right: McCready, Ament, Cameron, Vedder and Gossard.

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Lead guitarist Mike McCready in Columbia, Maryland on September 18, 1998

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Pearl Jam in Columbia, Maryland on September 4, 2000

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Frontman Eddie Vedder in Pistoia, Italy on September 20, 2006

Seether
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Seether are a South African rock band founded in May 1999 in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. The band originally performed under the name Saron Gas until 2002, Disclaimer is their original album and major label debut. They have experienced continued success with number one hits on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart such as Remedy, Fake It, Count

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Seether playing live at the DC101 Chili Cookoff 2008

U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their

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U2 performing at Madison Square Garden in November 2005, from left to right: The Edge; Larry Mullen, Jr. (drumming); Bono; Adam Clayton

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Bono performs in Norway during the War Tour in 1983.

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The tree pictured on The Joshua Tree album sleeve. Adam Clayton said, "The desert was immensely inspirational to us as a mental image for this record."

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The Zoo TV Tour was a multimedia-intensive event, featuring a stage that used dozens of video screens.

Rush (band)
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Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968 in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist and backing vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer, percussionist, Rush is known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on

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An Oberheim OB-X synthesizer, as used by Geddy Lee on the albums Moving Pictures and Signals.

The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, hav

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The back room of what was the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London where the Rolling Stones had their first residency in 1963

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The Rolling Stones performing at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia, May 1965

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A trade ad for the 1965 Rolling Stones' North American tour.

R.E.M.
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R. E. M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, lead guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. Released its first single—Radio Free Europe—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone, the single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982,

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R.E.M. in concert in Padova, Italy, in July 2003. From left to right: Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, touring drummer Bill Rieflin, and Peter Buck

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Record producer Mitch Easter (far left) was important in defining the band's sound, producing all of their material until 1984

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Scott Litt produced a string of R.E.M.'s breakthrough albums in the 1980s and 1990s.

So Cold (Breaking Benjamin song)
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So Cold is a song by American post-grunge/alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin. It was released in March 2004 as the single from second album. Despite never having reached the number 1 spot on the Mainstream Rock Chart, the single was certified platinum by the RIAA on September 25,2015, the same day the bands debut album Saturate was certified

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So Cold EP

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"So Cold"

Breaking Benjamin
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Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, founded in 1999 by lead singer and guitarist Benjamin Burnley and drummer Jeremy Hummel. The first lineup of the band included guitarist Aaron Fink. This lineup released two albums, Saturate and We Are Not Alone, before Hummel was replaced by Chad Szeliga in 2005, the band

Cold (Crossfade song)
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Cold is the first single released in May 2004 by the rock band Crossfade. It was the single released from their debut full-length self-titled album Crossfade in 2004. It fared exceptionally well on charts worldwide and is their biggest hit to date. Mainstream Rock Tracks, and #2 on the U. S, modern Rock Tracks, as well as reaching #48 on the UK Sin

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"Cold"

Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
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Hemorrhage is a song by the rock band Fuel, released as the first single from their second album Something Like Human. The song has surpassed Shimmer to be Fuels biggest hit to date, the single was #1 for 12 weeks on the U. S. Modern Rock Tracks chart and is the bands most successful song to date, an acoustic version is a bonus track on the special

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"Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"

Fuel (band)
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Kemble Walters Fuel is an American rock band formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the name to Fuel in 1994. They are known for their hit songs Shimmer from Sunburn, Hemorrhage and Bad Day from Something Like Human, the band has sold nearly four million records worldwi

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Fuel performing in May 2010

Headstrong (Trapt song)
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Headstrong is the debut single from the band Trapt and the lead single from their 2002 self-titled debut album. It reached No.1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts and No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it crossed over to mainstream pop radio, peaking at No.4 on Billboard Mainstream Top 40. The song also won two Billboard Music

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"Headstrong"

Trapt
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Trapt is an American rock band that formed in Los Gatos, California in 1995, best known for their 2002 single Headstrong. The group consists of lead vocalist Chris Taylor Brown, bassist Peter Pete Charell, drummer Brendan Hengle and they have released seven studio albums to date, Amalgamation, Trapt, Someone in Control, Only Through the Pain, No Ap

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Trapt vocalist Chris Taylor Brown live in Abilene, Texas

Loser (3 Doors Down song)
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Loser is a song by American rock band 3 Doors Down. It was released in July 2000 as the single from their debut album The Better Life. The power ballad spent 21 weeks at the position on the Billboard U. S. Mainstream Rock chart, a record for the chart. Lead singer Brad Arnold wrote the song about a friend who became addicted to cocaine

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"Loser"

Awake (Godsmack song)
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Awake is the lead single and title track from Godsmacks second studio album. In an MTV online chat, Godsmack vocalist Sully Erna said that Awake is Godsmack getting some closure, Erna then said, Thats me getting closure on a relationship. Im just saying that now Im awake, and Im able to deal with everything I have to deal with, where before I felt

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"Awake"

Wasteland (10 Years song)
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Wasteland is a single released by hard rock band 10 Years in 2005. It is their single from their first major release, The Autumn Effect. It also spent an unprecedented ten weeks at the two position on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was featured on the bands independent second album Killing All That Holds You. The album was rei

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"Wasteland"

10 Years (band)
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10 Years is an American alternative metal band, formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999. The band consists of Jesse Hasek, Ryan Johnson, Brian Vodinh, Chad Huff, to date, they have released seven albums, the latest of which, From Birth to Burial, was released in April 2015. 10 Years were initially formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999 with singer M

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10 Years performing at The Pearl Room in Mokena, Illinois

Paralyzer
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Paralyzer is the first single from the Canadian rock band Finger Elevens fifth album, Them vs. It was released in March 2007, Finger Elevens frontman Scott Anderson has said that the single has a feel distinct from the rest of Finger Elevens music, possessing more of a funk rock or dance-rock sound. However, the song has also characterized as alter

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"Paralyzer"

Finger Eleven
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Finger Eleven is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 1990. They have released seven studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream. They won the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2008 and it was later certified gold status in the US and multi platinum in Canada. They released

Remedy (Seether song)
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Remedy is a song by post-grunge and alternative metal band Seether. Interspersed are shots of singer Shaun Morgan dressed up as a carnival barker taking a group of people on the worlds most terrifying ride. It also served as the song for WWEs pay-per-view Summerslam 2005. It is a song in the video game Guitar Hero On Tour. It was released as a song

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"Remedy"

It's Been Awhile
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Its Been Awhile is a song recorded by American rock band Staind. It was released in March 2001 as the single from their album Break the Cycle. The song is Stainds most successful and is their song, becoming a No.5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The narrator is someone who takes stock of his life and makes references to his previous drug addiction pr

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"It's Been Awhile"

Staind
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Staind was an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist and backing vocalist Johnny April, and drummer Jon Wysocki. To date, the band has recorded seven albums, Tormented, Dysfunction, Break the Cycle,14 Shade

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Staind live at the LEC in Laredo, Texas

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Lewis performs at the Rolling Rock Town Fair on August 4, 2001.

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Staind at Uproar Festival 2012

Higher (Creed song)
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Higher is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released in August 1999 as the single from their second studio album. Vocalist Scott Stapp and long-time friend Steven Harang wrote the song about the power of lucid dreaming, Higher was Creeds major breakthrough hit which helped to place them firmly in the American mainstream music scene. It pea

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"Higher"

Creed (band)
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Creed is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida. The bands best-known line-up consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, Creed released two studio albums, My Own Prison in 1997 and Human Clay in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000. The bands third album, Weather

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Creed returning for an encore in Salt Lake City, October 2009

When I'm Gone (3 Doors Down song)
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When Im Gone is a song by American rock band 3 Doors Down. It was released in October 2002 as the single from their second album. It peaked at No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 2003, the song also spent seventeen weeks atop the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from November 2002 through March 2003, becoming one of the longest-r

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"When I'm Gone"

Touch, Peel and Stand
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Touch, Peel and Stand is a song by the rock band Days of the New and the lead single from their self-titled debut album. It was released in 1997 and remains arguably the bands most popular, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and retained the spot for a then-record sixteen weeks. On their list of Top Mainstream Roc